Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter or coat a large cookie sheet with cooking spray.

Directions:
In a medium sized mixing bowl, sift together flour and salt.
In a large mixing bowl, using a mixer on medium speed, beat butter, sugar and vanilla extract until creamy, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg and desired amount of food coloring until combined. Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in flour mixture until just combined.

Fill cookie press and form cookies on cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until set. Cool 1-2 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely. Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired.

19 comments on "Butter Spritz Cookies"

Thanks for the recipe. I've made these many times and they are good. I will give yours a try. Don't need a special occasion for these since they are pretty simple to make and go a long way. I'm like you...I make a mess in the kitchen. Flour everywhere, batter everywhere...just a mess.

these look great! i always make a huge mess in the kitchen, too. no matter how careful i am, some flour spills out when i measure, or i forget to turn the mixer speed down and it splatters out of the bowl... onto me, the counter... and then of course whenever i do some "tasting" it always spills on me, too. and i hate doing the dishes. i usually just leave them there in some sort of standoff with nick, to see who gets irritated enough to clean them first ;) he's a neat freak, so i usually luck out :) that english muffin sounds delish. have you ever made them? i've been wondering about them and bagels lately.

I'm the same way. I'll cook and bake like a madman but then be stressed by the dirty kitchen and mountain of dishes! I hope you got your english muffin treat :) Love the color of these festive cookies!

these look nice. Have to buy a cookie press though :( maybe a new year gift ha. I love making cookies too and yea also end up with the kitchen a mess looks like it snowed last time cause it was covered in icing sugar :)

I love spritz cookies but haven't made them since I was in home economics back in the dark ages. It's not the recipe I have trouble with, it's the pressing them out that is a pain. I love to dishes. I'll be your sous chef and clean up if I can take goodies home after I'm done......:o)

THAT is often the hardest part of cooking - all the cleaning up. In cooking school, you're always taught to clean up as you go. I do that sometimes, but usually I just let it all pile up in the sink and then I put something in the microwave for 2 or 3 minutes and see if I can clean it all up in that time. (I never can.)

The one reason I usually favor cooking over baking is simply due to the mess factor. Whenever I bake I get flour everywhere and end up with too many dishes to wash. They inevitably sit in the sink for a few hours until they bug me enough to actually get off my bum and wash them. Ahh but the results of baking - it's what keeps us coming back time and time again.